Article
The NIDA Brain Disease Paradigm: History, Resistance and Spinoffs
History Faculty Research and Scholarship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2010
Disciplines
Abstract
This article examines ‘the NIDA paradigm’, the theory that addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disease characterized by loss of control over drug taking. I critically review the official history of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) paradigm and analyze the sources of resistance to it. I argue that, even though the theory remains contested, it has yielded important insights in other fields, including my own discipline of history.
Citation Information
David T Courtwright. "The NIDA Brain Disease Paradigm: History, Resistance and Spinoffs" (2010) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_courtwright/2/
Originally published in BioSocieties (2010) 5, 137–147 by The London School of Economics and Political Science.
doi:10.1057/biosoc.2009.3
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/biosoc/journal/v5/n1/abs/biosoc20093a.html